JNS HOTELS LTD

🌳Matureactive

SC531532 · ltd · incorporated 2016-04-04

Investment thesis

Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.

Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.

Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.

Why now

Window steady · low confidence

Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.

What changed my view

Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

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Last 180 days

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🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

£-360.4k

book net assets

Opportunity

79/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Hotels and similar accommodation

Sector: Accommodation & food service

Investor take

Pass (distressed without resilience)

Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Deleverage or restructure. Leverage at 100% of assets — consider sale of non-core assets or equity injection. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

25 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

79/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Negative net assets

Liabilities exceed assets by £360,403

High leverage

Liabilities are 100% of total assets

Leverage

100%

Liabilities / Total assets

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

-£360k

↓ 22% YoY

Current Assets

£233k

↑ 2.1% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Total assets	£491.6k	£539.9k
Current assets	£232.8k	£228.0k
Net assets	£-360.4k	£-295.2k

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

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1 signal detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (18 events)Click to expand

2025-11-14
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2025-06-28
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2025-06-24
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2025-01-31
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accounts · AA
2024-01-04
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2023-01-26
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accounts · AA
2021-07-27
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accounts · AA
2020-12-11
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accounts · AA
2020-01-25
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accounts · AA
2019-12-17
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2019-04-23
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2019-04-22
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2019-01-24
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2017-12-13
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2016-04-04
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Company incorporated
As JNS HOTELS LTD
2016-04-04
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SMITH, James appointed
director
2016-04-04
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SMITH, Neil appointed
director
2016-04-04
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incorporation-company
incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

79/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
+No director turnover: Company is 10 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

51/100

Moderate signal

Some succession indicators present. Worth watching; approach if sector/strategy fits.

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean

No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Neil Smith Individual · Scottish · DOB 08/1966 · age 60	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016
Mr James Smith Individual · Scottish · DOB 10/1976 · age 50	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2016-04-04

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC55100 — Hotels and similar accommodation

Registered office

Roebank Hotel & Wedding Venue

Roebank Road

Beith

North Ayrshire

KA15 2DX

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-17

Last: 2026-04-03

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

SMITH, James→

director · ~50y · appointed 2016-04-04

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Active

SMITH, Neil→

director · ~60y · appointed 2016-04-04

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Recent filings (25 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-04-30

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2025-11-14

gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date

gazette · DISS40

2025-06-28

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-06-25

gazette-notice-compulsory

gazette · GAZ1

2025-06-24

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2025-01-31

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-05-24

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2024-01-04

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-05-28

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2023-01-26

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-05-09

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2021-07-27

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-06-26

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2020-12-11

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2020-05-10